As part of our harvest festival, we asked for donations for the Alnwick food bank. As you can see we had an absolutely fantastic response! These items have all now been collected and taken to the food bank who would like to pass on their grateful thanks for it all.
We have all been learning about the Creation story. We talked about the wonderful world around us and what we are grateful for. This was then linked to harvest and the crops we eat. A harvest festival will be held in school on 23rd October and we are holding a collection for the Alnwick food bank.
As part of our learning, reception and key stage 1 used fruit and vegetables to print with and then made some out of paper plates. The class also wrote a ‘thankful pumpkin’, writing one thing they were thankful for.
Key stage 2 made their own harvest baskets, explaining why they chose particular fruit and vegetables.
Harvest prayers were written by the whole school to give thanks for everything we have.
Reception harvest prayer
Dear God,
Thank you for the healthy bananas,
Thank you for the orange pumpkins,
Thank you for watermelons,
Thank you for tomatoes.
Amen
Reception class all worked together to create a harvest prayer.
We each thought of a line for it.
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Reception had a busy morning! We have been enjoying Each Peach Pear Plum as one of our core books this half term. We really liked the sound of the Plum Pie in the story and Mrs Wood had told us that some of the plums were ready to be picked in the community garden.
We went on an exciting hunt for plums and found lots in a small plum tree. We picked a few and then set about making our very own delicious plum pie. We found lots of apples on the apple tree in our community garden as well so we decided to add these to our plum pie.
Each child did a wonderful job of washing their hands and the fruit. We counted out 6 plums and 4 apples as it said in the recipe. Then they rolled out the pastry into the pie tin. After that they did a fantastic job of cutting up the fruit (supervised)! Then, they cooked the fruit in some butter on our hob and added some sugar that we had measured out. Everyone did a great job of stirring and taking turns. After that they spooned the mixture into the pastry and we put it in the oven.
We were very proud of them all for doing great listening and taking turns but most of all for making a perfect plum pie!
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John Sadler and his friend Beverley came to teach us all about The Border Reivers and the events that led up to them becoming so notorious in Northumberland and along the Borders.
They brought some replica weapons to show us and the children were very excited to hold them and to see them in action as John and Beverley re-created some dramatic sword fights.
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We have been given 30 new “Hymns and Songs for Assembly” books from an account linked to Alwinton & Holystone Churches. We are very grateful for these as ours had seen better days! We very much look forward to using these once singing is allowed again.
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